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That's fair comment but at the same time her being a woman shouldn't be seen as carte blanche to do whatever she feels like with no response in kind and I will give you an example of something that once happened to my brother to illustrate that. He was out in a club one night and ended up in some sort of spat with a woman who flew at him claws out and while he tried to protect himself with just arms up trying to defend his face his arms ended up in shreds with strips of skin hanging off. He went to the hospital to have it seen to and when the doctor there heard what had happened he said don't ever let anyone do that to you again. These are significant wounds and if anyone even a woman does this to you then you must respond with violence if need be to stop it.

Sutton has the nerve to talk about professionalism just days after 'professionally' mocking the mans clothes. He amounts to little more than an average troll.

Apparently a common view from the sheep as well. Forrester really needs a talking to regarding his loss of control because if he keeps that up he's going to put us in a tight spot in a key game sooner or later. Here is a sheep fan view already. Personally I totally believe that we're a comfortably better team than they are but their following don't grasp that or at best don't acknowledge it. With that in mind if we can get our recent form going from the off they're quickly going to turn on their own side while our fans will be giving it big licks. The fact they're hoping to get a reaction from Forrester may even be viewed as an unconscious admission that we're better than they are and need to be reduced to 10 men to make it anything like even. I think we're better than them to the extent that though the bulk of their support aren't bright enough to grasp that McInnes most certainly isn't that stupid and who knows. He may even set up in a fashion we see so often and which has worked against us in the past. Just try to stop us playing and hope for something on the break. Ross County got away with that. QoS who had an excellent defensive record prior to their game with us did not. I'm hoping they don't do that. If they try to play an open game we will create enough chances to win it. They were lucky against St Johnstone last night when I think it was into the last 10 minutes before they forced a save from the SJ goalie and in their previous home match against second bottom of the table Caley who have the highest goals against tally in the league they got just 2 shots on target and luckily for them one of them went in. Caley had just one shot either on or off target the entire match and it went in. All this indicates they're no great shakes either in attack or defence.

Yeah it's gone too far. Ross County were time wasting in the first half for crying out loud. And that's exactly how overwhelmed they were by us. In the opening minutes they looked as if they had come to play then just a single run by Windass scared them so much they retreated to park the bus and waste time. It would be interesting to know exactly how long the County goalkeeper spent holding and rolling the ball around during the match.

Mr Warburton is right about the QoS match being no different from the Ross County match. And if we had scored as many or even just 3 which would have been a fair return for the total dominance the media pundits would probably be making us favourites for this match which is why I make us favourites to take them. We only need to turn up and play the same game and they too will be pinned back which would quickly silence their crowd. Call me over optimistic but I think we're due to get the same luck everyone else does such as theirs against St Johnstone last night and I think if we play to our capabilities we can take 3 from them. I'm going for 3-1 Rangers in the prediction league.

If it's anything like their match with St Johnstone they're going to come out kicking and Forrester is an ideal target since he is known to have a short fuse at times.

The thing is how will we know what they're saying if no one looks?

You tell me. It's horrific.

Contrast that with the abuse Warburton got from Sutton in particular because he said it was a good performance in the draw with Ross County.

This is the tackle on video. The video will start in the seconds leading up to it. He forgot he was a goalie out of the box and apparently so did the referee. https://youtu.be/Flr0IikdRWk?t=8m53s

Imagine Forrester had made that tackle. The guy on the wrong end of it said himself that if any outfield player had made that tackle he would have walked. For some peculiar reason the ref treated it differently because he was a goalie despite the fact he's now an outfielder when he steps outside that box.

A guess would be because not only was he a goalie out of the box but it looked so bizarre and couldn't be described as a tackle at all. He was airborne and literally flying at the player for crying out loud while Forresters tackle was pretty much typical stuff you will see in any game.

RANGERS midfielder Joey Barton's autobiography titled 'No Nonsense' has been longlisted for the presitigious William Hill sports book of the year award. The 34-year-old was suspended by the Ibrox club for three weeks following an altercation with teammate Andy Halliday and Mark Warburton earlier this week. 'No Nonsense', co-written by Michael Calvin, was released today and tells the story of Barton's eventful career and early life. The shortlist will be announced on 18 October and the winner on 24 November, with the triumphant author taking home a £28,000 cash prize, £2500 free William Hill bet and a day at the races. Longlist for William Hill Sports Book of the Year Today We Die a Little: The Rise & Fall of Emil Zátopek, Olympic Legend by Richard Askwith No Nonsense: The Autobiography by Joey Barton, with Michael Calvin Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek by Rick Broadbent Football’s Coming Out: Life as a Gay Fan and Player by Neil Beasley with Seth Burkett ‘How’s Your Dad?’: Embracing Failure in the Shadow of Success by Mick Channon Jr Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan For the Glory: The Life of Eric Liddell by Duncan Hamilton Watching the Wheels: My Autobiography by Damon Hill, with Maurice Hamilton Forever Young: The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football’s Lost Genius by Oliver Kay Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives by Anna Kessel Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight Chasing Shadows: The Life & Death of Peter Roebuck by Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge The Belt Boy by Kevin Lueshing and Mike Dunn Mr Darley’s Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life – A History of Racing in 25 Horses by Christopher McGrath Find a Way: One Untamed and Courageous Life by Diana Nyad Mister: The Men Who Taught the World How to Beat England at Their Own Game by Rory Smith We Had Some Laughs: My Dad, The Darts and Me by Dan Waddell http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/rangers/14758927.Rangers_midfielder_Joey_Barton_s_autobiography_up_for_sports_book_of_the_year_award/?ref=rl&lp=3#comments-anchor

I don't know a thing about any of them so not qualified to choose anybody at all.

Well at this stage he has done nothing for Rangers any of us will care to remember. As for the future he has a £2 million contract we're going to have to pay to put him out the door and I think in the meantime if the only alternatives are pay him or keep him we should keep him and make him get his head down and get fit. After his suspension is up it will likely be at least another 6 weeks before he could get a sniff at a first team place and in that time we're going to have a chance to see how the team performs with no Barton in it. If they perform well he is going to have to work very hard indeed to get back into the reckoning and if he is as driven as he claims to be then in some ways that's an ideal situation for both him and us. If he is truly as dedicated a professional as he says he is then prove it. Get fit and force your way back into that team. He can't suddenly have become a bad footballer in a matter of weeks after being the best player in the English Championship last season. If he can show us that Joey Barton he could still redeem himself.

EVEN Don King would have struggled to russle up more pre-event publicity than Joey Barton has received for the launch of his autobiography. But thankfully the finished product goes at least some way towards justifying the hype. Ghostwritten by Michael Calvin, No Nonsense sees Barton lay bare his self-destructive tendencies, particularly his struggles to control the omnipresent violence which is a product of his tough upbringing on the St John’s council estate in Huyton, Merseyside. Having said all that, as its mention of Scottish football is restricted to just three pages and doesn't touch on his current turmoil at Rangers, the second volume might be even more sensational. No Nonsense would not be the worst choice of stocking filler for Christmas, but it should perhaps come with an inbuilt health warning. Amazingly, considering how much of the 33-year-old's life is already out there in the public domain, it transpires there is still more about Barton to learn - everything from the fact that he attended AA meetings in jail right down to the fact he was known only as Joe or Joseph until Manchester City coach Derek Fazackerley christened him Joey to the media on the eve of his first-team debut. Incidentally, that debut itself is one humourous interlude in proceedings. It was delayed six months when his first team jersey, left in the technical area at half time, was stolen by a fan nearby with City having no replacement kit printed up in his name. If episodes like that provide the light relief, no punches whatsoever are pulled when it comes to Barton's depiction of the numerous scrapes he has found himself in throughout his career. This is a product both of nature and nurture, particularly the influence of his father Joseph. For all the warmth Barton exudes towards a man whom he calls his 'hero', one of the life lessons he passed on was telling the 12-year-old Barton how to beat the bullies by holding their neck with his left hand and punching them repeatedly on the face with his right. When an Alsatian bit him as a youngster, leaving a mark on his nose which remains to this day, Joseph Barton senior's remedy was to run over the dog, then reverse back over it to make sure that it was dead. The horrified owner was urged to depart the scene or else suffer a similar fate. Violence and disagreement has never been far from home: his brother Michael was sentenced to 17 years in prison, his cousin Paul 23 years for a racially-motivated killing. One of his uncles would wait till mum and dad were out before persuading Joey to let him in the house, hiding a bag full of £20 and £10 notes and promising young Joey the change if he kept his mouth shut. After all, it was enough to buy several Subbuteo teams. How all this family trauma manifested itself onto Barton the man reveals itself as you turn the pages of this book, with blanks filled in along the way on incidents such as the affair when he stubbed a cigar out in the eye of Man City youth team player Jamie Tandy during a Christmas party. If his reaction to it all wasn't so brutal, you almost sympathise with Barton's rationalisation (it had been one prank too many when Tandy had set fire to the back of his shirt). Another ferocious row followed on a pre-season trip to Thailand, Barton going hell for leather with Richard Dunne, before a final training ground set-to with Ousmane Dabo. While the 34-year-old's insecurities are also on display here - he feared being stabbed to death during his six-month period in prison - the picture painted here is of a man genetically incapable of backing down from an argument. His stand-off with Mike Ashley at Newcastle is a case in point, as he led a dressing room rebellion after refusing to be bullied into signing an agreement waiving bonuses at the club. While Barton generally leaves Ashley and his cohort Derek Llambias without a name, one diverting detail which emerges is the fact that he was using Ashley's helicopter to get to training due to his curfew conditions, a gesture he felt was free until being heartily invoiced for the privilege. He is aware of the contradictions in his persona, some of which may still bubble on today. "I wanted people to like me," he says in the book. "I wanted to be light-hearted, to laugh and joke with those around me, but everything I did had the opposite effect. I wanted to be a good team-mate, and yet I ended up fighting with them. I wanted to be successful yet everything I did conspired against that." All this hinterland, plus his refusal to be silenced on Twitter, is fascinating context when you look at Barton's current predicament at Rangers but there are plenty of other nuggets in there too. Blessed with only one England cap, a friendly against Spain, he says England's golden generation was in fact "the me generation", and also awards himself the rather generous score of eight of ten for his appearance on Question Time. If not exactly top marks, this autobiography is a more than decent effort too. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/rangers/14759958.No_nonsense_from_Barton_as_new_book_lays_bare_his_battle_with_his_demons/

Here's a little quote from a sheep follower to give you all a chuckle.

Whatever. He should have taken some of the smelly brigade with him. Give them a new experience of getting wet when it's not raining.

Semi-finals - Saturday/Sunday October 22/23 Final - Sunday November 27

True. That was an amateur display of kick and run. It's incredible that they're seemingly so highly rated. You have to get the feeling that our fast passing high pressing will be a shock to their system. As for their obvious only strategy surely MW can put out a side to totally negate that. Maybe even the giant Crooks to catch those high balls before they even reach the defence.

Unbelievable. Even the commentators said Rooney had never been in it till he scored. The Norwich loan was and is their only player of any quality.

So be it. The sheep get a final spot and beaten by whoever goes through to beat them.

I only want Morton to stop the yahoos getting them. They didn't pull an SPL side all the way to the Scottish cup semi last year then we know what happened when they did.

Be even better though if SJ snatch a last second equaliser.